Cultural Accounting, and other links

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• Chicago blocks church parking lots to enforce stay-at-home order -- “City police prevented cars from parking at Elim Romanian Pentecostal Church as people gathered for its Sunday evening service...”
• Clergy, scientists grapple with thoughts of worship without congregational singing -- “Hearing of Eaton’s warning and the more general notion of not singing when people regather in pews, the Rev. Boise Kimber responded that it was a nonstarter for a predominantly black church like his in New Haven, Connecticut.”
• Cultural Accounting -- “These drawings—many attributed to the Kiowa—were originally bound in an account ledger and dated 1840–1895.”
• Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza -- “No model, no matter how accurate its epidemiologic assumptions, can illuminate or predict the secondary and tertiary effects of particular disease mitigation measures.”
• Does This CDC Study Deliver the Knockout Blow in the COVID Lockdown Debate? -- “Most people are more likely to wind up six feet under because of almost anything else under the sun other than COVID-19.”
• Firmly Rooted -- The Stark family lumber empire of Orange forged cultural destinations that offer art, history and nature.”
• For Years, an East Texas Carpenter Has Been Building a Gothic Contraption of Decks and Spikes in a Historic Square -- “Right across from the courthouse, wrapping around and atop a modest single-story 1935 home on Broadway Street, lies something genuinely perplexing...”
• Go Ask Alice -- “What happened to the ballot box that saved Lyndon Johnson’s career?”
• My Hometown: Henderson Holds Tightly to Its History -- “A former middle school art teacher, Smith leads local history tours, dons period attire for the Heritage Syrup Festival, and sings in the annual East Texas Sacred Harp Singing Convention...”
• New antibody study is strong evidence that the lockdown strategy is the wrong course -- “The answer to these questions has devastating implications for the lockdown strategy employed by Western governments in combating the spread of COVID-19, as opposed to the balanced approach of most Asian countries.”
• Senators Call On DOJ to Investigate Planned Parenthood for Fraud -- “...dozens of Planned Parenthood affiliates had applied for and received a total of about $80 million in forgivable loans from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), established by the CARES Act for small-business relief, despite the fact that Congress explicitly excluded nonprofit organizations set up as affiliates...”
• Spirits of Seguin -- “I’d heard that Seguin’s Magnolia Hotel is one ghostly getaway where eerie encounters are a nightly occurrence, so I decided to see for myself.”
• The 2006 Origins of the Lockdown Idea -- “At least now we know that many great doctors and scholars in 2006 did their best to stop this nightmare from unfolding. Their mighty paper should serve as a blueprint for dealing with the next pandemic.”
• What do coins on military tombstones mean? -- “A coin left on a headstone lets the deceased soldier's family know that somebody stopped by to pay their respects.”
• Why Didn’t the 1958 and 1918 Pandemics Destroy the Economy? Hint: It’s the Lockdowns -- “Adjusted for population size, [the COVID-19 pandemic] comes out to a mortality rate of 272 per million. This is (so far) less than half the mortality rate for the 1957–58 flu pandemic.”
• Why Those COVID-19 Models Aren't Real Science -- “...too many people in high places, in government and the media, have been acting as if there is a right and moral policy toward the pandemic that applies throughout America.”